Stravinsky / Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic: Violin Concerto Scherzo a la Russe Apollon Musaget - SUPER-AUDIO CD

Stravinsky / Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic: Violin Concerto Scherzo a la Russe Apollon Musaget - SUPER-AUDIO CD

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Violin Concerto Scherzo a la Russe Apollon Musaget

Artist:

Stravinsky / Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic

Label:

Chandos

Product Type:

SUPER-AUDIO CD

UPC:

095115534021

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2024-01-05

Number of Discs:

1

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One of the foremost musicians of his generation, James Ehnes continues to dazzle audiences around the world. Here he joins the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis in a recording of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto. Written for the Polish virtuoso Samuel Dushkin, the four-movement work takes the music of Bach as it's inspiration, and is built around a chord of the notes D, E, and A, which Stravinsky described as his 'passport to the concerto' and with which the solo violin part opens each movement. Dushkin gave the premiere, conducted by Stravinsky, in Berlin in 1932. Apollon musagete, a ballet in two parts for string orchestra, was written in 1927 - 28, and demonstrates the composer's complete rejection of the Russian folk music and idioms that had been so instrumental in his previous ballets (The Firebird, Petrushka). They are replaced by a concentration on 'pure form', which became known as his neo-classical style. The album is completed by his two orchestral suites - light-hearted music arranged from piano duets he had written in the 1910s - and Scherzo à la russe, a showpiece for the Paul Whiteman band that he composed in the early 1940s when newly arrived in California.

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